198 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



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602. CLOVER. TRIFOLIUM. 



A large genus, with over 12 species in our area, of pros- 

 trate or erect herbs with compound leaves and 3 leaflets that 

 are approximately evenly stalked, and minutely but distinctly 

 toothed. Flowers in dense head-like clusters, yellow, red, pur- 

 ple, or white, the cluster sometimes stalked, or more often 

 stalkless or very short stalked. Pods small, often hidden by 

 the sepals. All the species below are European, and most 

 are cultivated. They are found along roadsides, or in fields 

 rarely in the woods. 



Flowers yellow Yellow Clover no. 603 



Flowers reddish or white 

 Flowers white or whitish 



Nearly prostrate ; flower cluster long stalked 



White Clover no. 604 



Erect, 6-18 in. high ; flower cluster short stalked 



Old-field Clover no. 605 



Flowers red or pink 



Flower clusters almost stalkless Red Clover no. 606 



Flower clusters long stalked Alsike Clover no. 607 



603. Yellow Clover. Trifolium agrarium. An erect clover, 

 usually branched, and 6-15 in. high. Leaflets oblong, or oval- 

 oblong, practically stalkless, slightly notched at the tip, 

 wedge-shaped at the base. Flower cluster yellow, oblong, 

 about % in. long, on stalks ^-2 in. long. Nova Scotia to So, 

 CaroHna, and westward. May-September. Fig. 603. A related 

 species, T. procumbens, has shorter flower clusters, and its 



